Reality: CDL uses technology to replicate a library’s right to loan works, in a digital format, to one user at a time
Reality: CDL can help authors by enhancing the discoverability, availability, and accessibility of their works
Reality: CDL is simply an application of fair use and fair use has been around as long as copyright
Reality: Fair use allows use of the amount necessary to fulfill your purpose
Reality: Digital and physical libraries contribute to a healthy publishing ecosystem and increase sales and engagement for creative work
Reality: The ReDigi decision opens up the potential for more technological uses, like CDL, for non-commercial, educational access
Reality: CDL helps users with print disabilities access books
Reality: Libraries preserve information, and preservation requires ownership, not licensing agreements
Reality: Author & publisher control ends at the time a book is purchased, and then fair use begins
Reality: The copyright act makes no distinction between digital libraries and physical ones